Five years ago, industrial robotics was an elitist field. The hardware was expensive and often dangerous for humans to work around. Worse, the only folks who could really play with that hardware were ...

Self-learning robot hands Date: June 8, 2017 Source: Universitaet Bielefeld Summary: A new system that learns how to grasp objects has been developed by a team of researchers. Share: ...

Researchers are using generative AI and other techniques to teach robots new skills—including tasks they could perform in homes.

Discover how reinforcement learning is transforming quadruped robots like Spot into agile, adaptable tools for real-world applications.

A team of researchers from TU Wein has developed a self-learning robot to complete simple tasks like cleaning washbasins.

Robots are super interesting, but you probably shouldn’t start learning about them with a full-sized industrial SCARA arm or anything. Better to learn with something smaller and simpler to un… ...

Want the top robotics news in your inbox each week? Sign up for Actuator here. Additional research highlighted by CMU this week compares its work to early-stage human learning.

It can enable a robot to take input data generated by an expert performing the actions to be learned, and combine it with deep learning techniques to enable more effective learning of movements.